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  Beginners 2010

  ★★★★½ Watched 23 Mar 2025

  Watching a Mike Mills film feels like sitting on the floor of an empty room while he gently lays out all the love, grief, uncertainty and hope you carry, then tells you it’s all going to be okay simply because you’re feeling them in the first place.

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  Bird 2024

  ★★★★ Watched 22 Mar 2025 2

  Another addition to the Tender Misery of Being Young and Having No Way Out section, filed right next to Ratcatcher.

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  After Hours 1985

  ★★★★★ Rewatched 15 Mar 2025

  Every time I watch this film I believe, with total certainty, that it’s Scorsese’s best film—though my certainty is alarmingly fickle and applies to most of his filmography.

  Screening at DGA, followed by a Q&A with Scorsese and Dunne.

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  Zero Dark Thirty 2012

  ★★★★½ Rewatched 12 Mar 2025

  No triumph, no closure, just the self-perpetuating machine draining every ounce of catharsis, until all that remains is death, futility and a question that leads nowhere.

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